NEW -- Hugely successful press conference for Donald Trump this morning.
Did not take a single question about his presence in the Epstein Files.
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Crime rates in the nation’s capital are the lowest they have been in decades, and have decreased dramatically over the last two years.
He also suggested police should use violence as they work if people they arrest try to resist. “They fight back until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand,” he said.
Authoritarian experts warn that Trump, who previously deployed both the California National Guard as well as active-duty Marines in Los Angeles, is actually trying to accustom Americans to the idea of having federal troops on the ground in cities — a foreign concept in this country...
